Grow

How to Start Vegetable Garden Seeds Indoors in 7 Easy Steps

How to Set up a Greenhouse Kit and Strengthen it for Wind and Snow

How to grow a salsa garden to make homemade salsa planting tomatoes peppers onions garlic cilantro

How to Start a Raised Bed Vegetable Garden for Beginners

How to Grow Seedlings in a Greenhouse

What are the best crops to grow for cold winter storage

15 Best Vegetable Crops to Grow for Cold Winter Storage

Learn how to know when to plant garden seeds in your area

How do I Know When to Start Garden Seeds

Learn how to tap trees to make syrup in your backyard

How to Tap Trees and Make Syrup in Your Backyard

20 free seed starting pots from reused and repurposed items

20 Free DIY Seed Starting Pots

How to Test Seeds for Viability and Germination

The Backyard Orchardist complete guide to growing fruit trees in the home garden book review Montana Homesteader

7 Ways How to Find Free or Cheap Garden Plants

Hello I'm Annie and welcome to our blog!

I was raised in an old farmhouse in the country and taught by three generations of women in my family to cook from scratch, can and preserve food, nurture plants to grow, craft with my hands, and live a simple, meaningful life. Now I'm teaching my own children these skills on our little homestead in Montana. I am a Master Gardener and a Master Naturalist and love helping others learn. I'm sharing these vintage skills here so you too can live a simple, more connected homemade life- one canning jar at a time!